Four Base Essence, a 3-2-4 Site.

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I have played a LOT of FE over the last two years, and frankly I didn't even think this was possible.  A buildable site with Four Base Essence.  In the interests of full disclosure I do have some mods installed (Snaking, Bridges, Large UI) but none of them impact tile layout or essence yields.

Look at this thing - in the middle of a triangle formed by an Ogre Lair, Crystal Mine and a Shard.  3-2-4.

 

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Do you have the Map Pack DLC?

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top


Yes I have the DLC.  This was a random map though.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

I had a 3-2-4 tile in my first v1.2 game as well.

Unfortuntely, I was slaughtered by the AI, and didn't have much of a chance to enjoy it.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Nice!

 

Too bad you couldn't cast 4 enchanted hammers on a settlement there :)

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

That's called Arcane forge ;)

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Yes I have the DLC.  This was a random map though.

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Yeah just curious because they added some new stamps for random map to the DLC.  I wonder if there was no 4 base essence until the DLC.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting abob101, reply 7



Yes I have the DLC.  This was a random map though.




Yeah just curious because they added some new stamps for random map to the DLC.  I wonder if there was no 4 base essence until the DLC.
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Nah it's not new.  I played a game a few weeks back where I started on a 4-3-4 spot.  It was amazing.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

4-3-4? That's insanely good. If you Oracle'd/Scrying Pool'd that up I'm not even sure what you'd spend all the essence on.

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

Wildlands should each have a site like that to make conquering them more rewarding. The heads suck aside from that swamp one (+5hp for trained units) They shouldn't be common, so wildlands and maybe 1-2 random spawned ones?

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

Have had a random 4 essence spot twice, some time ago... They do happen, but only on abundant resources (sets minimum resource distances to 2 tiles, so the essence boost from a shard and an ogre lair can overlap).
4 Essense cities are amazing when you happen to be playing Pariden... ;)

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

Reply #11 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Kongdej, reply 11
Have had a random 4 essence spot twice, some time ago... They do happen, but only on abundant resources (sets minimum resource distances to 2 tiles, so the essence boost from a shard and an ogre lair can overlap).
4 Essense cities are amazing when you happen to be playing Pariden...

Sincerely
~ Kongdej
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Ah so that's how it works. I remember seeing a 3 essence tile bump up to 4 essence when I cleared out an adjacent ogre lair. I wonder why ogre lairs bump up essence?

Reply #12 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting sjaminei, reply 10
Wildlands should each have a site like that to make conquering them more rewarding. The heads suck aside from that swamp one (+5hp for trained units) They shouldn't be common, so wildlands and maybe 1-2 random spawned ones?
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Agreed. Wildlands rewards always need to seem impressive, not just some 4/3/1 site which is nice but hardly worth getting excited about mid/late game when you are clearing out wildlands.

Reply #13 from Elemental Forums Top


playing on Insane I've seen several 4 essence sites as enemy capitals, guessing that they get a couple of bonus resources adjacent to their first city.